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Prcpident. 
TIMOTHY DWIGHT. D. D., LL. I)., Prest., Yale Univerpity. , 

FRANCIS L. PATTOM. D. D., LL. D., SETH LOW, LL. D., 

Prest., Princeton University. Prest., Columbia College 

N. A. CALKINS, Superintendent. 
School Extension. 

W. T. HARRIS LL. D., SETH T. STEWART, General Secretary, 

United States Commibsioner of Education. P. O. Box 192, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



CONSTITUTION 

OF THE 



J^ATIONAL !pOAF(D OF pIRECTOF(^. 



[Provisional.] 

The National Board of Directors of the University and School 
Extension is organized under the following Constitution, which is a 
part of the general Constitution of the University and School Ex- 
tension. This Board shall consist of the Executive Committee, as 
originally constituted, and the representatives of the different 
State Boards. 

The highest legislative authority on all matters pertaining to 
the University and School Extension shall be vested in this Board. 
It shall not only undertake to accomplish the specific designs of the 
University and School Extension, but it shall discuss, adopt, and, as 
far as possible, execute measures that may advance the cause of 
education in the United States. 






UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL EXTENSION. 

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The Board, being duly incorporated, shall be a self-perpetua- 
ting body with power to increase or decrease the number of its 
members. This power, however, shall not interfere with the right 
of the State Boards to representation, nor to the life tenure in the 
Board of Directors of the members of the Executive Committee as 
originally constituted and of their successors elected to member- 
ship in the Committee. If any one of the four Presidents of Uni- 
versities in the Executive Committee as first constituted declines to 
serve, the others may select the President of some other University 
or College, who with his successors shail thereafter be entitled to 
the tenure to which reference has just been made. 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

The Executive Committee of the Board shall be the Execu- 
tive Committee as first constituted, the Treasurer selected by them, 
and six others, when the work is sufficiently organized, elected 
annually by the National Board. 

The Executive Committee shall be the Board of Trustees for 
the National Board. It shall have the title with full control of all 
the property of the Board, except as restricted by the Board. The 
Executive Committee shall also serve as the Committee on Finance. 
It shall apportion the funds annually to the various uses of the 
Board, and shall have immediate charge of all property of the 
Board, wherever situated. 

All the workers appointed to work of university grade, shall 
before the appointment takes effect, be approved by the Executive 
Committee, and each year at the annual meeting, all work, and 
themembership of all members of theExtension of university grade, 
as well as all representatives of the general organization, shall be 
subject to approval, or removal for cause, by the Committee. 

Copyright 1890, Br Seth T. Stewart, Sec'y. 



CONSTITUTION OF THE NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 



PRESIDENT. 

The President of the Faculty of University Extension 
shall be the President of the National Board. 

VICE-PRESIDENTS. 

The Vice-Presidents shall be any two of the Executive Com- 
mittee elected, as such, by the Board. 

GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT. 
The Superintendent in the Executive Committee, as originally 
constituted, shall be the General Superintendent of the work of 
School Extension. 

TREASURER. 

The Treasurer elected by the Executive Committee shall be 
the Treasurer of the National Board, and he shall hold the funds 
under the direction of the Executive Committee. 

GENERAL SECRETARY. 

The General Secretary shall organize the work of his office by 
establishing the bureaus approved by the Executive Committee, 
and he shall appoint assistants who shall serve as Corresponding 
Secretaries of the different departments. With the approval of 
the Executive Committee of the National Board, lie shall also 
appoint the State Secretaries of the Extension, who shall be under 
his general direction. 

STATE BOARDS OF DIRECTORS. 

The National Board shall organize the State Boards, through 
its Executive Committee, who shall name the Colleges in the dif- 
erent States, whose Presidents, if they consent to serve, shall be 
life members of the respective State Boards. 



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The State Boards shall have the right to representation in the 
National Board. They shall organize the work and workers in 
their respective states, as provided by the Constitution. They 
shall have power to increase or decrease the number of their mem- 
bers ; but they shall not interfere with the life tenure to which 
reference has already been made, nor to the right of local Boards 
to representation. 

MEETINGS. 

The National Board of Directors shall assemble yearly in the 
month of December, at the close of which meeting, six members 
of the Executive Committee shall be elected, two members of said 
Committee being designated, Vice-Presidents. The Executive 
Committee shall, also, meet each year, in the month of April. 

DEPARTMENTS. 

A department shall be organized for the students in each and 
every subject of education. The work in each department shall be 
under the direction of a University Society consisting of the facul- 
ties of University Extension, and School Extension, for the given 
subject, and representatives in the several states of the College 
Societies for the subject. In the interest of unity of plan, all 
rules and regulations, however, shall be subject to approval by the 
Executive Committee of the National Board, as shall, also, be the 
limit to the membership of clubs of university grade. 

BY-LAWS. 

The Board may make, and at any time, at a regular meeting, 
after one month's notice in writing to each member, it may change 
its By-Laws, 



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